Stop recent videos from showing on your lock screen

What's that video player doing on my lockscreen?So, this one is fun. All of a sudden, when you lock your puter, the “currently playing” video appears with playback controls on the lock screen.

Now, this might be a useful feature, except that in many cases it’s rather broken.

Both Chrome and Firefox on my puter will show the most recently played video on my lock screen – not one I’m currently watching.

This is pretty annoying because A) I don’t watch vids when my puter is locked and B) I don’t need the rest of the world to see what I’ve watched recently.

Fortunately, you can turn it off!

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The biggest tech company you’ve never heard of

TSMC: The most important tech company in the worldWe all know about Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and so on.

But there’s one tech company that’s utterly massive in its importance to the entire industry, and no one is talking about it.

Well, to be precise, no one is talking about what MIGHT happen should the current,um, global mayhem go one step too far…

Join me as I take a look at TSMC: the biggest tech company you’ve never heard of!

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10 tips to speed up your PC

Speed up your puter with these 10 easy tips!Who doesn’t want a faster PC?

Well, it’s easier than you think.

Most of the time, the way we use our puters is what slows them down.

By making a few minor adjustments to how you work, you can get the most bang from your existing PC – without forking over bucks for a new one!

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NVMe drive missing or not booting? There’s a simple fix!

NVMe inaccessible boot deviceOn the one hand, NVMe drives are blazingly fast. On the other hand, getting them to work with Windows – or even your BIOS – can be a bit of a nightmare.

I recently upgraded several computers that had SATA SSDs. I wanted to upgrade each one to an NVMe drive.

So, I used Paragon Hard Disk Manager and just copied the SATA C: to the new NVMe drive, upgraded the hardware in each puter, and then tried to boot: NO DICE!

Windows 10 kept giving me a blue screen at boot with the message: INACESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.

Worse yet, it seemed the BIOS/UEFI wouldn’t even detect the NVMe drive properly. WTH?!

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The quietest gaming keyboard in the entire universe!

Quietest Gaming Keyboard EVER!Despite the prevalence of touch devices these days, chances are you still have an “old fashioned” computer with a keyboard.

Many keyboards are very quiet and comfortable to type on, but they don’t last very long. Enter the Gaming Keyboard!

It’s old school durability and reliability meets modern tech.

Only trouble is, these things are SUPER noisy to type on… Or at least, they were super noisy.

Behold the world’s most silent gaming keyboard!

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Fix “UPDATEBIOS.exe – The application could not be started” error on MSI PCs

UPDATEBIOS.exe ErrorIf you have an MSI puter that you upgraded to Windows 11, you probably noticed an annoying little error. Every time you boot up, you got a popup window that states:

UPDATEBIOS.exe could not be started. Do you want to view information about this issue?

So of course you click Yes, and then you get another error message.

Obviously, the problem has something to do with the built-in Dragon Center software trying to do a BIOS update check – and failing.

Not to worry – the fix is pretty simple!

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